A Few Thoughts on Hiring and Being Hired
When I left Capital One, for the first time since my mid-20s, I had nothing lined up. No new job to go to, no small break before starting a new adventure, just an open book of what could come next.
Talk To The Duck
Crafting code and culture while talking about software engineering, leadership, and anything in-between
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Rethinking Early Careers in the Age of AI
Early Career engineers were never there for the easy wins… they were, and still are, an investment in the next decade of leadership
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Bringing the video together and sharing the lessons learnt along the way
Ambient Video Generation - Step 5
Exploring Stable Audio, ACE-Step & MusicGen for long-form generative music
Ambient Video Generation - Step 4
Switching to ComfyUI to create more modular, and less memory hungry, AI pipelines
My Approach to Setting Up Cursor
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Ambient Video Generation - Step 3
Exploring Checkpoints, LoRAs & community models for more dynamic image generation
Ambient Video Generation - Step 2
Outpainting, Masks & Feathering - expanding SDXL Images to Widescreen
Ambient Video Generation - Step 1
Exploring SDXL, FLUX, Base & Refiner workflows and prompt engineering for image generation
Keeping Photography Real In An AI World
How I use AI tools to save time on repetitive tasks while ensuring the creativity and art remain mine, and respect the work of the designers and artists whose games I photograph